A report on slave labor being used on fishing vessels highlights the difficulties companies have in trying to monitor activity in a complicated supply chain that spans the globe, and involves myriad numbers of middlemen.

Would the U.S. State Department dropping Thailand to Tier 3 status in its upcoming Trafficking in Persons Report have any impact on Thailand's shrimp industry and its use of slave labor, or on consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere who have become accustomed to inexpensive shrimp?

From allegations in November that Apple Inc. supplier Flextronics International used forced labor to build components of the iPhone 5, to reports of abuse of workers by construction companies in Qatar, few things are worse for a company or an industry than to be associated with human trafficking or slave labor.

From allegations in November that Apple Inc. supplier Flextronics International Ltd. used forced labor to build components of the iPhone 5, to reports of abuse of workers by construction companies in Qatar, few things are worse for a company or an industry than to be associated with human trafficking or slave labor.

The Germanwings co-pilot said by investigators to have deliberately crashed an airliner in France could change the risk calculation for companies in the U.S. who must balance employee privacy and disability concerns with liability for accidents.

With the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II approaching this year, many in East Asia have their ears trained on Japan, waiting to hear how Tokyo accounts for its wartime conduct. Hopes are high for a once-and-for-all apology, but it's not that simple.

China’s World: Abe’s firm election mandate could mean a warming with China. But Manchukuo, a wartime industrial wonder engineered by Abe’s grandfather in China, illustrates the heavy---and personal--weight of history on ties.

The arrest and detention in New York of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for allegedly grossly underpaying her Indian-born maid triggered radically different reactions in India and America. Much of the gap views can be explained by the gap in pay scales in each country.

Pope Francis called for Europe to find a new sense of purpose, describing the continent as “elderly and haggard” as it struggles with youth unemployment, waves of migrants and conflict on its eastern borders.